Bag and twine holder



(No Model.)

, O. A. MARSHALL.

BAG AND TWINE HOLDER.

Patented July 8, 18-90.

NITED STATES P TENT OF ICE.

CHARLES A. MARSHALL, OF LOWELL, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM H. BARTLETT, OF NE W BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BAG AND TWINE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,604, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed January 17, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OHARLEs A. MARSHALL, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag and Twine Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to holders for paper bags, wrapping-paper, and twine.

The object of the invention is to produce a holder or support for paper bags and the like, on which bags or sheets of paper may be suspended and from which they may be readily removed. The holder also has a receptacle for twine and a device by which the end of the twine will be drawn up out of the way.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the bag and twine holder suspended from its drop-bracket. Fig. 2 is a broken perspective showing engagement of skewer with hooks. Fig. 3 is a broken top plan of part of the device.

The numeral 1- indicates the drop-bracket. This is secured to the ceiling of a store or other place where the bag and twine holder is to be used, as by screws 2 2. A light rod or support 3 extends into the hollow body of the bracket 1, and a set-screw at permits this rod 3 to be adjusted and held at any desirable height. The lower end of rod 3 is screwed or otherwise secured to one of the filling-pieces (5, which pieces connect the side bars 5 5. The bars 5 5 are preferably of light cast metal and are held by screws or rivets 7 7 to the fillingpieces 6, and constitute the hook-supporting frame. The inner faces of the bars 5 5 have grooves 8 S, which receive the edges of the hangers 9. These hangers 9 project below the lower edges of the frame-bars 5 5, and on one face are provided with two hooks or curved projections 10 and 11. The grooves 8 are narrower at the bottom to hold the hangers. A number of skewers or bodkins 12 are used, the number being equal to the spaces between the hangers 9. Each skewer has a loop or ring 13 large enough to go around the hook 10 of the hanger, and the other end of the skewer is pointed. The skewers are driven through a number of paper bags, as 15, pieces of wrapping-paper, tablets, or the like, and

Serial No. 337,275. (No model.)

then suspended on the hangers, the ring 13 embracing the lower hook 10 of one hanger and inclining upward, so that the skewer is supported near its point by the hook 11 of the next hanger. The skewers or bodkins are thus held in inclined position, so that the ba s,

&c., will project one below the other, and may be readily torn off one by one from the skewers. Different sizes of bags will be hung on separate skewers.

The skewer can be readily removed from the hangers to be stabbed into a pile of bags and easily replaced on the hangers.

25 embracing this wire and will slide loosely I on the wire. The weight may have additional eyes, loops, or perforations 26, through which the string may pass. A rubber washer 27 serves as a buffer to check the fall of the weight. The twine or cord 30 from ball 31 in the basket is passed through loops 26 of the weight 24, and may extend up and down between the loops of the weight and wire. The tension of the string on the weight should be such as to lift the weight, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, when end 32 of the string is pulled. When the string is broken, the weight 24 will slide down the wire 22 and carry the string into the position shown in full lines, Fig. 1, thus raising the end of the string a diso tance proportioned to the number of turns between the loops, and the end of the string will be out of the way until wanted. The weight may be-increased or diminished by using a hollow receptacle filled with shot. 5 This device brings the bags or wrapping-paper and the twine to be used in doing up parcels to aconvenient height and into very convenient relation to the salesman, so that parcels may be quickly and neatly wrapped. 10o

What I claim is 1. A bag and twine holder consisting of a frame having hangers and skewers for bags, a twine-basket, and a twine-guiding rod provided with a loop and sliding weight, the whole constitutinga device by which bags can be suspended and twine held out of the Way, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the frame, of a series of hangers, each having an upper and a lower hook, and a series of bodkins having rings, the ring embracing the lower hook of a hanger and the body resting on the upper hook of the adjacent hanger, so that the bod- 

